Narrative Culture, Volume 9, Number 1, Spring 2022 ("Let Me Tell You a Story": Anthropological Encounters with Narrative)

Narrative Culture claims narration as a broad and pervasive human practice, warranting a holistic perspective to grasp its place comparatively across time and space. Inviting contributions that document, discuss and theorize narrative culture, the journal seeks to offer a platform that integrates approaches spread across numerous disciplines. The field of narrative culture thus outlined is defined by a large variety of forms of popular narratives, including not only oral and written texts, but also narratives in images, three-dimensional art, customs, rituals, drama, dance, music, and so forth. 

Narrative Culture
Volume 9, Number 1, Spring 2022
Special Issue: "Let Me Tell You a Story": Anthropological Encounters with Narrative
Guest Editors: Barbara Götsch and Monika Palmberger

Introduction: The Nexus of Anthropology and Narrative: Ethnographic Encounters with Storytelling Practices
Barbara Götsch and Monika Palmberger

Storied Answers to Questions about Interethnic Marriage in Multiethnic Qinghai Province, PR of China
Monika Kolodziej

Negotiating a Project Request: Narrative and Intersubjective Understanding at Work
Barbara Götsch

Verbal Art as a Route into Local Knowledge in Yemen: The Work of ʿAbd Allāh al-Baraddūnī on ʿAlī bin Zāyid
Noura Kamal

Narratives of Transnational Placemaking: Exploring Migrant Workers’ Hidden Histories through Memory-Guided City Walks: A Migrant Woman’s Narrative
Monika Palmberger

Material Memories: Narrating and Reconstructing Experiences about Displaced Childhood during World War II
Eerika Koskinen-Koivisto

City of Rebels: Considering Migrant History-Telling in an Ethnographic Inquiry of a Neighborhood’s Past
Duygu Doğru

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Ways of Understanding Fairy Tales among Teacher Candidates 
Magdalena Kaliszewska-Henczel

Afghan Refugees’ Iconic Stories
Benjamin C. Gatling 

“I Am a Refugee in This Land”: Performative Narration, Recollection, and Resilience in Refugee Narratives of West Bengal, India
Sumallya Mukhopadhyay